Blogs from Kazakhstan, Asia - page 20

Pre Cambodia days! (well, mostly!) Asia » Kazakhstan By AlbyApril 8th 2007Alby Mangels Heres a collection of the wonderful people ive meet BC (before Cambodia!) looking at their worst...and there best!! Dont blame me for the crappy snaps...your the one with the alcohol problem ;-) Please dont judge a book by its cover, some of these people are twice as bad as they look! Just to carify the term "bucket". A bucket in Thailand is a lethal combination of Vodka, redbull and sprite..(my preferred choice!) served in a...you guessed it... bucket!! Great fun at the time but not much so in the morning.. I apologise if i've missed anyone out of the crappy snaps photo session. I'll endeavour to keep this updated as more crappy s... read more

Hej. Saa er der endelig tid og ledig computer samtidig. Vi ankom til Taraz i tirsdag om aftenen. Bag os havde vi en lang lang rejse, isaer for Maria og Mette, som havde vaeret frygtelig luftsyge. Det var jeg bare slet ikke, jeg havde det fint. I Almatys lufthavn blev vi hentet af Andrij, som fulgte os hen til et sted med morgenmad. Vi var bare rigtig rigtig traette, saa vi spiste ikke rigtig noget. Men han forstod det vist godt. For at komme fra Taraz til Almaty, maa man tage bussen. I ti timer! Maaske ikke lige hvad man har brug for, naar man ikke har sovet hele natten, men vi maatte jo bare tage det som en oplevelse. En anden oplevelse er ogsaa toiletterne, som virkelig varierer MEGET!! Jeg taenkte paa busturen som en ... read more

We are in Kazakhstan - the land of Borat. We’ve been here for two days, chilling out, seeing the sights of Central Asia’s wealthiest city - Almaty. We’ve also been preparing for our travels through Russia. Later today we catch a train to Novosibirsk. Getting to Siberia is something that greatly inspires us. In the meantime, here’s what we’ve been up to recently… Our final days in Kyrgyzstan After leaving the capital, Bishkek, we spent three excellent days in and around Karakol, near the shores of the famous Lake Issyk-Kul. It was a very chilled-out experience - a quality homestay with a family of artisans, a DIY trek through remote Alpine valleys, and some relaxing hot springs. We’d read about a village with several natural hot springs somewhere up in the mountains, so we decided to ... read more

Day 82, 21st August Nalymovo - Makuchino - Zotino We’ve been sleeping twelve-hour nights because the days are getting shorter. The day was spent going along quieter, straight roads. Good weather, the wind behind us. We drank lots of coffee, ate at cafes, and near the last police checkpoint (where they wanted to see our Kazakh transit visas) a few miles before the border, we drank lots of beer before cycling off to find a place to camp. On the way, I had another problem with my front rack which I managed to repair while Toby cooked *gretchka. It had been a good day, we’d done 60 miles, it was sunny as I retired to my tent to sleep. In the night I awoke to total and complete silence - and the brightest stars that I’d ... read more

The train ride to Semey provided us with yet another incidence of suberb Kazakh hospitality. We ended up in a compartment with 3 very dizzy and probably slightly drunk Kazakh ladies who were making the same journey as we were. Tired from staying up late the previous night and getting up early to finish tidying up in the flat, we tried our best not to get involved in conversation with them but alas, it was inevitable. They spoke no english although one of them could count to 4 in german and kept insisting on us drinking tea. They told Adam not to put his shoes on the rack above his bed as dirt would fall off them and make him dirty (thats what we think they were implying anyhow) and just kept laughing at anything we ... read more